Aireana Owen, Animal Care Intern Favorite Animal? AWCC: Wolves and Bears Overall: Gorillas Where are you from? Indianola, Washington Education? Majored in Biology at Washington State University, but is moving to Florida to finish my degree How did you get involved with AWCC? I started here as a volunteer and fell in love with being part of the…

Tierney Gannon, Animal Care Intern Favorite Animal? AWCC: Hugo the Grizzly Bear or Snickers the Porcupine Overall: Toads Where are you from? Lockport, Illinois Education? Ohio State University; Major: Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology Minor: Spanish Aspirations? I want to travel and work in multiple locations and countries and to find a career that includes working with wildlife, education and traveling. How do you…

Cameron Ward, Hoofstock Keeper Favorite Animal? AWCC: Canadian Lynx Overall: Pangolin, an animal related to the armadillo Where are you from? Originally I’m from Columbia, Missouri, but I grew up in East Lansing, Michigan. Education? Majored in Health Sciences and minored in Biology at Truman State University What has AWCC done for you? AWCC has given me the opportunity to live…

David Rehak Suma, Educational Animal Keeper Favorite Animal? For the past two summers, I have been fortunate enough to raise our Black-Tailed Sitka Deer fawns. This experience has shown me how playful the fawns can be and how the proper upbringing can influence the behavior of the deer. They are also the cutest animals on the planet. …

Hanna Sundstrom, Lead Animal Keeper Favorite Animal? AWCC: It’s hard for me to choose a favorite animal, but I have always been interested in bears, so they’re at the top of my list. I also gained a huge appreciation for muskox and moose while I’ve been here – they have a much larger personality than people realize. Overall:…

Katie Middlebrook, Lead Animal Keeper Favorite Animal? AWCC: Red Foxes, Sitka Black-Tailed Deer, Canadian Lynx Overall: Great White Shark after doing conservation research in Mosselbaai, South Africa Where are you from? I grew up in Glendale, AZ but lived in Alamogordo, NM for 4 years and in Anchorage, AK for the past 3. My husband is in the military,…

Do you want to help our animals have fun? Create toys while watching an animal play? And learn about our featured animal? Then you would love AWCC’s newest event series: Animal Enrichment Day!

Animal Enrichment Day is an afternoon full of learning, playing and helping our animals to have fun winter toys. The series will begin October 7th, 2017 and will run the first Saturday of every month until April 7th, 2018. Each event will consist of a particular animal enrichment activity, fitting to all ages.

Join AWCC and the Easter Bunny on Easter Sunday, April 1st! Enjoy a sunrise service at the Point followed by a delicious brunch. After brunch, the Easter festivities will kick off with a puppet show, egg hunts and animal feedings around the center!

Do you want to help create toys to enrich our animals’ lives? And learn about our featured animal? Then you would love AWCC’s newest event series: Animal Enrichment Day! On the first Saturday of every month, AWCC is holding a volunteer animal enrichment building workshop located at the Center (in Bison Hall). The three-hour workshop will concentrate on constructing a particular type of toy and learning about our resident animals from our expert animal care staff.

Just like people, animals need toys … especially when living in human care. The enrichment items serve several purposes – they engage, stimulate and entertain the animals. And on the human side – they provide our participants with opportunities to create these useful enrichment items for their favorite animals.

Participate in the race or show your support (race proceeds go to caring for the wood bison herd at AWCC), then stay for afternoon celebration with an award ceremony, animal presentations, and food. The race starts at 11 am and the awards ceremony at 12:30 pm.

Prizes go to the top 3 male and female race winners. First place winners (male and female) gets to name the first babies born of the season plus pick one more prize from our prize pool.

Prizes include Icebugs, Bison Basket of wood bison goodies and WOWS tour for 2 in a coffee mug.

We have some great sponsors participating in this year’s race! Smartwool and Icebugs are supporting AWCC and will be present on race day, runner or visitor check out their table and the great items they produce.